This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Diabetes is strongly associated with socioeconomic status: low income, low education, and low occupational status are all linked to a higher risk for type 2 diabetes.

At the close of October, PLoS Medicine published 5 new articles, including the monthly editorial: The PLoS Medicine editors reflect on recent research and analysis that highlight the need to fully evaluate rapid diagnostics. Using

Three new articles publish this week in PLoS Medicine, including two related studies on tuberculosis by Luis Cuevas and colleagues. Luis Cuevas and colleagues report findings from a multicenter diagnostic clinical trial in tuberculosis, showing